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ironhand |
$10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 7 2010, 12:02 PM EST
Hi all,Sorry this is a little later than I had planned....... This month's gear is about shelters and discussions about building shelters. Purchased Items: 6' x 8' Plastic Tarp $4.88 (All Purpose, Blue 5.1 mil Plastic) 4x 12" Steel Tent Stakes $3.00 45' x 1/8" Utility Twine $1.50 Free (scrounged) Items: 6+ Flat Washers 6+ large nails This month's activities (practice) is to get out and make a shelter! 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?
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LJ126 |
1. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 7 2010, 12:50 PM EST
Where'd you get these items from this month?
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OutlawJames |
2. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 7 2010, 2:14 PM EST
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6' x 8' 5.1 mil tarp $4.48 ( Wallymart)60' x 1/8" nylon twine $ 2.00 2 replacement aluminum tent poles $ 3.99 ( changed from $3.49) I misread the price, didnt have my reading glasses on..getting old sucks, I dont reccomend it. 8 x 12" homemade steel stakes, made from 3/16 rod 8 fender washers 8 10 penny spikes Do you find this valuable? |
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ironhand |
3. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 7 2010, 5:23 PM EST
"Where'd you get these items from this month?"LJ, These all came from Walmart. Tarp and Stakes in camping section, but look for the twine in boating or in tools (for masonry line). Also common 15#-18# twine will work too. It's about the same price. Do you find this valuable? |
White76Knight |
4. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 8 2010, 12:37 PM EST
"Purchased Items:Good list this month. The tarp and the tent stakes shouldn't be a problem, and I've already got 100 ft of paracord in my kit. The washers are easy too, but nails big enough to use as stakes don't live at my house. I may just use the change I saved by not having to get the Utility Twine to buy a pack of the 7" aluminum stakes to go with the steel ones instead. Do you find this valuable? |
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ironhand |
5. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 10 2010, 8:16 PM EST
"6' x 8' 5.1 mil tarp $4.48 ( Wallymart)Outlaw, I like the alum poles : ) I had tried one time to use a fiberglass take-down pole for a fishing rod, but it.....didn't pan out. Maybe someone else is smarter ; P Outlaw, you got any "other" uses for those poles? Do you find this valuable? |
RUPREPARED |
6. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 10 2010, 9:06 PM EST
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1 Emergency Blanket 4.95 1 Emergency Poncho 3.50 Woolen beanie and gloves 2.50 Scavenged: 1/4 " Nylon rope (bout 10 Feet) A Hancercheif bandana. A a whole box of chain resturant hand wipes (Courtiousy of my Local Chicken Treat a Great find) I have posted a list of materials that I use to make a makshift hammock in a previous post. Due to oz's low rainfall (espcially where i am) I am yet to find it neessery to do more than cover myself with a tarp (If I'm Sleeping on the ground) or my jacket and poncho (while i Sleep in my hamock). As for acivitys last month due to lack of funding I never mangaged to get any time at the range, however I'am seeing if my preper buddy will foward me the cash so that I can do some handgun training I will definatly get some shelter practice in tonight, I always set up camp at night so I guess Ill practice durring both day and night, Note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMrpPW3ZpyY Theres a reletivly good use for fiber glass tent poles. Do you find this valuable? |
Mr.Trickman |
7. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 11 2010, 8:56 AM EST
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1 8'x10' tarp $5-6 (I'm a big guy and when folded its not much bigger)300' cord $3 on sale at my local fishing/hunting store/gas station 6 8''+6 10" steel tent stakes free-ish(due to a child hood camping incident involving a freak wind storm, my cheap tent was totaled but my stakes were still good. I found them one day while sorting through some old things and had that thought all packrats have. 'I bet I can use this.') 1 cheap emergency blanket $1.50 Various Nails and eye bolts lieing around the house free Do you find this valuable? |
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OutlawJames |
8. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 11 2010, 9:21 PM EST
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"Outlaw,Ironhand, Yeah a couple, first off a brief discription. they are 2 piece poles about 4 feet long , aluminum tubing, with plastic pins in the end for the tent gromets and caps on the bottom ends So I have basically 4 x 2' aluminum tubes. The are rigid enough to use for splint material for broken limbs. I am altering them pulling the plastic pieces and fabricating aluminum gromet pins to fit. cross drilling the joints and putting in cotter clips. I am also cross drilling the base of them and fabbing a plug to join the two poles giving me an (approx)8' length. I am also fabbing a fishing spear head I can swap with one of the pole tips. These plugs and spear heads will fit inside the tubes and be retained inside by the cotter clips or put into place for use and held by the clips. ( I'll take pics and post it all when done.) The tubes can also be used as a rotisserie bar for cooking over fire. tent poles ! ....:oD Give my itty bitty mind some time to think, and Ill come up with some other ideas. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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White76Knight |
9. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 12 2010, 8:07 AM EST
"Ironhand,Holy crap. If they can do all that, I might have to get a set myself. Did they come from wallyworld too? Do you find this valuable? |
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OutlawJames |
10. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 12 2010, 11:19 AM EST
"Holy crap. If they can do all that, I might have to get a set myself. Did they come from wallyworld too?"Well with the few modifications I am making...i am really impressed that I can use them as tent poles...LOL I picked them up on clearance at one of the sportinggoods/outdoors shops. They were for a small puptent. ( a coleman I think)..oh and I have to edit my price. They were 3.99 not 3.49..didnt have my reading glasses on. Do you find this valuable? |
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Flashlight50 |
11. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Nov 12 2010, 11:21 AM EST
2 6'x8' camo tarp $3.99 (one for top and one for floor) 50' 550 cord $3.99 8 small metal stakes $3.00 (sharpened on my bench grinder) {purchased on sale from my store} From the garage: 6 S hooks 2 24 inch re-bar stakes with washers welded on 2 expandable aluminum poles (6' fully expanded) hatchet (sharpened on bench grinder) Do you find this valuable? |
queenofdoggs |
12. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Dec 9 2010, 7:01 PM EST
I WANT DECEMBER! I"M SO EXCITED! I HAVE NO LIFE! GIVE US DECEMBER! <3 PLEASE!
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White76Knight |
13. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Dec 9 2010, 8:56 PM EST
Me too. Once December's list is posted I intend to print it off, hand it to my children, and say "This is what daddy wants for Christmas."LOL 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
zachy_vengeance |
14. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Dec 9 2010, 11:21 PM EST
"Me too. Once December's list is posted I intend to print it off, hand it to my children, and say "This is what daddy wants for Christmas."You want a budget survival kit for Christmas? I wish my dad was more like you. My dad had to get $300 laser sights for his damn 1911 for one of his presents. Do you find this valuable? |
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queenofdoggs |
15. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Dec 10 2010, 12:57 AM EST
"Me too. Once December's list is posted I intend to print it off, hand it to my children, and say "This is what daddy wants for Christmas."Yea I wish you were my dad too! I'ma do that to my children one day now! Do you find this valuable? |
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White76Knight |
16. RE: $10 x 12 Survival Kit: Nov 2010 Shelter Making!
Dec 10 2010, 10:08 AM EST
LOL - My oldest child is eight. I couldn't expect her to get me a $300 anything.Besides, I guess I grew up in a family where Christmas wasn't measured by how much money everybody spent on one another, but rather on whether you took the time to really think about the other persons interests and hobbies and got something for them that MEANT something, regardless of how much or how little it cost. I'm sure the fact that we were all half-broke most of the time anyway had nothing to do with that. Do you find this valuable? |
